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Icom America Shines at APCO 2023 with New Offerings and a Revamped Booth

At APCO 2023 in Nashville, Icom America debuted a redesigned trade show booth and showcased new P25 radio equipment aimed at strengthening its position in the public safety market. Key company representatives and a manufacturer's rep from Midwest Wireless Associates highlighted the company's expanding footprint and forward-looking product strategy. The event underscored Icom America's commitment to innovation in land mobile and public safety communications.

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Icom America unveiled a newly redesigned booth and innovative P25 equipment at APCO 2023 in Nashville.

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Jesse Skipton, a 16-year Icom veteran, played a central role in the booth's reconstruction and presentation.

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Midwest Wireless Associates' Andy Hrycko expressed confidence in Icom's growing share of the public safety communications market.

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At the recent APCO 2023 event in Nashville, representatives from Icom America, including David Havican and Ed Cortes, showcased their newly redesigned booth and innovative P25 equipment. The event saw enthusiastic participation, with Jesse Skipton, who has been with the company for 16 years, playing a pivotal role in the booth's reconstruction. Andy Hrycko, a Manufacturer's Rep from Midwest Wireless Associates, expressed optimism about Icom's growing footprint in the public safety market. The event concluded successfully, with Icom America looking forward to future engagements and collaborations.

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Good morning, everybody. This is David Haviken with Icom America. I am getting ready to head off to APCO in Nashville, and I have my bags packed. My radio is ready for my next trip following the show. And from all of us at team icon, we look forward to seeing you. Have a great flight. Hello, everyone. This is Ed Cortez here in Melbourne, Florida getting ready to depart for Abco Twenty three. Please, make sure that you see us at good six thirty. I am John Paul. We just made it here to the APCO registration counter. We're checked in. We're heading over to our booth. Our newly redesigned booth due to all damage that was done to all of our equipment. Everything's all brand new. Everything's exciting, and we're looking forward to an exciting, fantastic week here in Nashville, Tennessee. Hi. I'm with Jesse Skipton. Jesse is in charge of our trade show team and has done a wonderful job of building and actually rebuilding our booth after a little truck overturned. And we are so very thrilled to have Jesse on our team. His time and his talents are well spent. How long have you been with the company now, Jesse? Sixteen years. Sixteen years of of dedication, and we are so grateful for you. Thanks so much, Skip. We are checking out all of our p twenty five and p twenty five accessory equipment. The show floor hasn't even opened, and we are filled with visitors. Who want to know what we will be showing this year at APCO. We promise our customers and our dealers that our exciting offerings in p twenty five are going to be the most successful that we have, ever shown here at the show. And we are confident that our footprint within the p twenty five and public safety market is going to skyrocket. One of the things that we are featuring is our public service offering. We are specifically marketing our gear to those agencies that prefer a smaller, more streamlined deployment, and we are hoping that, they will appreciate the lower price for the same quality that we have always offered And we are really excited to let everybody see our gear this year. We're here at APCO twenty three in Nashville, Tennessee with Andy Herco. Andy is a manufacturer's rep and the principal of Midwest wireless associates, one of our esteemed marketing firms, Andy. Why don't you tell us what your goals are here in, in Nashville this week? I'm glad to see Icom here. We've been proudly associated with Icom for over eleven years right now. Our company has been. And, you know, really, we're starting to see more and more business in that public safety space. There's a lot of companies that are out here that not only does our firm represent, but I see some potential customers for for Icom here as well. There's gonna be a lot of state governments here, and a lot of them are are really currently looking at ICOM and some of the other products that we have here. So we're looking forward to a good show. Thanks a lot, Andy. I really appreciate it when you, are out there re repping our product and all your other partner products. We, are really grateful for your enthusiasm and all of the work that you put into promoting our products and bringing those customers back to us. So thanks very much for your partnership. We look forward to many, many more years. We take icon for the partnership. It makes a lot. Thank you. AppCO twenty twenty three is a wrap, and we have had an amazing show. We've had such great booth traffic and generated so many terrific leads that we are going to be busy for weeks calling everybody back. If you did not have a chance to visit our booth this year, we look forward to hearing from you. W w w dot icom america dot com is the place to go for all things icon, and we cannot wait to help you communicate better.

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